There is good money in that, especially if you own your own rig. A friend of mine does and he loves it, but he gained weight like crazy.
let a fleet push you around for a year and THEN throw your weight a little.
Here in the tri-state .. pa/wv/ohio area the gas wells are booming and dry bulk sand cans for fracking are making about 1600 a week.
You work for it and you have no life, but there's money to be made.
A single man or with with a stable marriage can do well.
I never went OTR so I can't comment on that except ... you get to see a lot of America
The only way I made decent money driving a truck was by backing up the log book. That can’t be done anymore. You can drive 11 hours out of 24. That means you might get 500 miles a day. Plus there’ll be days you’ll be sitting and waiting on a load.
If you’ll notice there are any smaller trucks on the road anymore. Paperless logs put that part of the industry out of business.